Gay Rights

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October 30, 2013
OPINION - As organizations founded to be inclusive meritocracies because of national prejudices that prevented its educated members from enjoying…
October 9, 2013
OPINION - It's a consequential time and there are allies in the progressive coalition who can do more to knock…
August 23, 2013
ESSAY - This black, gay man of iconic stature -- who planned the 1963 March on Washington -- would have…
August 22, 2013
TODAY - If you thought Jodie Foster's Golden Globes pseudo coming out was unique, 'Prison Break' star Wentworth Miller has…
August 21, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Months before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' declaration galvanized a quarter-million people at the…
August 12, 2013
OPINION - King said recently, 'If I was homophobic, I wouldn’t have friends who are gay and lesbian' -- yet…
August 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Bayard Rustin was a key figure during 1960s -- he was a man who fought in social…
July 19, 2013
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than 1,000 people in Haiti are participating in a rare demonstration to protest homosexuality...
July 5, 2013
NBC MIAMI - The former NBA star has come full circle since a 2007 radio interview...
June 28, 2013
OPINION - It's that common link, that discrimination that binds us together, gay and black, white and straight and any…
June 27, 2013
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Senegalese President Macky Sall rebuffed Obama's call for Africans to give gays equal rights under the…
June 27, 2013
OPINION - Wednesday's Supreme Court decisions srtiking down DOMA and Prop 8 provide our community with the opportunity for honest…
June 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - The Illinois House of Representatives closed its most recent session without a vote on the issue and…
June 26, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act,…
June 25, 2013
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A gay rights activist is asking Jamaica's Supreme Court to overturn a colonial-era law that bans…
June 25, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - As the Supreme Court deliberates on DOMA, Antonio Douthit and Kirven Boyd become the first same-sex, actively…
June 12, 2013
OPINION - I would rather kiss the feet of a Klansman than help perpetuate the myth that black people are…
June 7, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In recent years, the impact of mental health, depression and even suicide among black men and women…
June 5, 2013
NBC NEWS - Michelle Obama confronted a gay-rights protester who heckled her at a Democratic fundraiser in Washington on Tuesday...
May 21, 2013
OPINION - Virginia Republicans have selected a dyed-in-the-wool, black conservative minister and activist as their nominee for lieutenant governor. And…